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The subconscious creates fairies as symbols and they should be seen as such. That is not going astray but not puting constraints on thought. An objective view can't start with conclusions, if you see what I mean. Everything must be up for grabs at every query or we start with assumptions. It is just like adding all information to the concept or truth, even lies as they are imagined and therefore are true enough. Lies form a pattern as does truth so lies can help identify liers. Truth should include everything now and room for that to come. Even random words and pictures can be used to identify random words and pictures. That thought can best be understood intuitively. Ayn presumably had 30% more intuitive ability, if she was just the statistical 'average woman', which I somewhat doubt.

I notice that people with low regard for themselves are so self conscious that they don't function well. Self centering is short sighted. You don't do well when you are looking at your feet all the time. In the sports example though, I know that they always encourage being a team player, because the opposing team may block a good player and he has to practice superior team skills to counter that tactic. If you couldn't figure a bad reason for their doing boing that might mean that there was a good reason. Makes sense. OK, it's true, I am just trying to start a fight.

Hmm. I enjoyed the article. I did want to comment on what seemed to be some objectivist assumptions, though. The idea of a boss serving his employees seems illogical, but in practice he may come in on weekends, be asked to solve all employee problems, keep the working environment warm and safe and in many ways be a servant to the employees. He takes the responsibility for the whole. Linear thinking may not allow for apparent contradictions. Presidents age quickly in office. In a like manner, we trust in the output of a calculator, if it has proven to be accurate. Would we ignore it's output consistently? Well we do that with the subconscious mind. I don't believe that most people realize how accurate it is when not tampered with by our ignorance. I say that because we don't use the most objective tool we have properly or objectively when we don't like the answer. Our thoughts are always in the way manipulating each other, chasing their tail, when the mind should be applied to manipulating the output of the mind, the intuition and picture logic it produces. Test it out with no preconcieved notions and you will see it to be so, if you can be that objective. Nowhere that I have gone have I seen people that actually practice their own beliefs. I always do and soon find out if they are true or not. Objective analysis of the output of the subconscious is so superior to the conscious mind that it makes calculators efficiency over the mind look like a small comparison. The picture logic of the brain is output in words and pictures which most people only seem to access intuitively at present. I should stop here as that is enough to digest and a few weeks of work to do to see the incredible results, but always intrepid, I would like to add this: Although most religions have traditionally been nuts, to use a technical term, the teachings in what we call in the West, the Bible, are not as they seem. They can only really be understood with right brain thinking or roughly the eastern mind. Conclusion: After all is said and done, all branches of knowledge and belief systems have some merit, lowering or raising us all to a more or less level playing field. The good news is that we can all come together and still save face. None knows all and none knows nothing. Just consider the little girl who told her parents to please stop fighting or the cannary in the mines who warns miners of bad air or the rocks that scientists study to come up with most of what we so prize.

I don't think that thinking can figure it out, because thinking is thinking about and adding to what we thought about It is limited to what we already think we know or know. It insults our intelligence to think that the subconscious brain is smarter than we are, but it is. It manages the large amounts of data in it with pictures and symbols in the pictures. It spews out thoughts (words) and pictures (concepts). It has already calculated our thoughts and validated or invalidated them by it's huge data bank. The best use of the mind is like any data bank, by inquiries. We may not like that idea, as it has a leveling effect on the confused intellectual, but the subconscious is the master at figuring everything out. We can manipulate the data and put in more queries for detail and clarification. Our part can get quite sophisticate, it is true, but the subconscious does the vast majority of the work. They call the output of the subconscious, intuition. Our manipulation of data is to answer a question or to effect our purposes. We couldn't possibly manipulate all the data the right brain can. Try it. The proof is a lot in the test. We can test propositions mentally by comparing with all the comparisons that come out of the mind from personal experience, history and even our perifrial vision, things we didn't even see clearly. When we try to control the whole process we interfere with the proper functioning of the mind. It also doesn't respond well to negatives as they usually block awareness of information. Judgmental words are not useful, but descriptive ones are. Descriptions are the most accurate we can get. Judgmental words are a conclusion before thinking. The easiest way to access the subconscious is to remain in the area between the question and the answer and continue observing for more information. Our questions are almost answered before we ask them. Nothing like testing folks, the inferior 'intellect' will not be able even to see the creative ideas as they are all outside of our reasonings. Our thought are just reworking of old ideas. Everyday and every problem requires fresh thought like the body needs fresh food. That is what keeps life fresh and exciting. You can think of ten million reasons why it isn't so, but check it out and you will see it is so, we just can't see it from here because we are in affect in the dark, locked in our conscious thought which only works a all because of intuition, you know ideas that come to us when we think. Where do you think they come from? Our feelings are made up of the same junk our thoughts are. We have to use our consciousness from the mode or being the observer, our sense of watching our self. That self is, and should be kept, objective. Objectively observe our thoughts and you will be amazed at how the brain works. That's objective observation of our objective brain giving us objective answers. If that doesn’t satisfy anyone then I am sorry. I anticipate endless reasoning to prove anything one wants to, but once you see the process in action you can check it every way to Sunday and you will see that it is absolutely the fuel for the Conceptual Age and the economy for the foreseeable future.

J Lack or talent is often lack of knowledge except for the physical aspects. Socrates asked the question, what is truth, about 400 years before Christ. He answered that question to his satisfaction and mine. His purpose was to make his fellow Athenians more able to vote wisely for the civic good. Philosophers throughout history, though, have not been satisfied and sought a more complete definition of truth. Obviously truth is all facts and as such we would never be able to fit them all into our memory, let alone manipulate them. So when Christ said, 'Know the truth,' he meant having an overview that works for most practical purposes. Do we have such a working knowledge of truth or what works? Many countries do pretty well in solving the basic questions, like peaceful government and hunger. Although we want and need more, the vast majority of questions are not pressing and actually keep us alive and vibrant, involved. That is appropriate as life is a process and not a destination. However, not everyone agrees as to which questions are more important, so learning to answer for ourselves is useful and exciting, especially since it’s initially so easy to learn that it’s pitiful. First get a question, reduce it to the basic question, empty your mind of all thought and feeling and wait. Not only will the answer come, but you will likely answer many other questions, correct false assumptions and make decisions in an attempt to get those thoughts out of your mind, while you wait. Why our mind can answer questions: Scientists, using the scientific method, have had great success in the scientific realm and science has great credibility because of it. By applying the scientific method in the social sciences, Herbert Spencer came up with a very credible definition of right and wrong. I thought his reasoning was very good, but we also profit by knowing how to think for ourselves rather than have answers given to us. Arriving at objective basic truths is fairly easy, but refining the process and discovering new rules may go on forever to keep life interesting. To be objective is basically to remove the worst variable in answering any question, and that is ourselves. We can see that principle at work in low self-esteem. As we think of ourselves, we become self conscious and awkward. Our awkwardness leads to poor performance and more lowering of self esteem, a debilitating downward spiral. Similarly, in asking a question, we cannot consider our opinion, advantage, or even thoughts and feelings on the matter to be objective, impartial. How does that work in practice? The mind seems to be an objective computer that will deliver unbiased answers if we make no assumptions to start with. The brain is objective by nature like a computer. If we don't put garbage in it works fine. The consious mind is not objective. For instance, if we don't like an answer or if it doesn't agree with our pet beliefs, we reject it. We have taken in a lot of data in a lifetime and can spew out fairly accurate information. But, ay the rub. The questions have to be honest and put in without any spin. Even then, unbidend visualizations and thoughts tend to be more accurate. There are many rules which we should notice in the process but we can learn the rules more easily and understand processes better by reading a book on Emotional Intelligence. Reading them can also leads us to think of other resources for quantum gains in effectiveness. Greater results encouraged us to push ahead in an upward spiral and then a staight line. Eventually we put on seven league boots and take giant steps across the land. If you see someone who seemd too happy, ask them, they may know how it works. Here are a couple or probable reasons. The mind thinks in probablilities and that eliminates the agony of looking at all the possibilitie. Also, Carl Jung determined that the brain, at it's fundamental level, works with pictures and symbols. That allows us to think in concepts larger than ideas, like the library put books first into ten major catagories and then subdivides each category into ten sub catagories. The mind automatically does this, if we don't interfer with it's proper functioning, and this is part of the reason for such relatively quick and surprisingly correct results. The answers are general, though, and usually require refinement, similar to colorizing a black and white movie. In conversation, this lack of detail is perceived as incorrect by the listener, but we can sense and find the corrections necesary to test, prove and elaborate on and explain the concepts. Problems we have worked on our whole life may be answered in days or weeks or are just solved subconsciously without our even being aware of it, such as weight loss if we are overweight. In the process of answering one question other important things are learned on other subjects. I was trying to explain to someone what I thought about something. While explaining I saw the actual process my brain had used to get that thought and in drawing it out on paper realized that I had also figured out the basic formula for quantum mechanics. If that isn't exciting, then I don't know what is, since in some ways I don't know much more than anyone else about either how the brain works or quantum mechanics. Do you realize how much clear vizualization of a math problem in your head would help in working out the solution in your mind? Here's one that is crazier than that. If psychiatry is right then the average person may be around sixty percent sane andforty percent crazy. I have worked with persons with mental problems and I do believe that they may be frustrated because they know that they are right about some things we call crazy and can't be sane because they cannot accept the forty percent of our insanity. I do believe I could show some enough common ground that they could accept and they could actually become more sane than average or at least greatly helped. One man said that he realized that his thinking had got him into an institution so he reversed his thinking and thought his way back out. Many seem to have good minds with wrong assumptions. Maybe talk therapy will make a comeback.